Music of Our Mountains · Ernest V. Stoneman – “The Titanic” Music of Our Mountains · Ernest V. Stoneman – “The Face That Never Returned” When we think of the machine that is recorded country …
BY TOM CARTER— Dad Blackard’s Moonshiners, alternatively billed as the Shelor Family, recorded four sides for Victor in 1927. On these recordings Joe Blackard sang the lead and picked the banjo; his daughter Clarice Blackard …
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The banjo and fiddle duo of J.P. Nester and Norman Edmonds had only two recordings released from the Bristol Sessions, but for many fans and critics the two sides represent the apogee of Appalachian stringband …
